Use of Prayer among Persons with Cancer

Holistic Nursing Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 46-60

  Taylor, Elizabeth Johnston ^a   Outlaw, Frieda Hopkins ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Coping; Phenomenology; Prayer; Religion

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SPIRITUAL HEALING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FAITH HEALING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPIRITUALITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036547054     PISSN: 08879311     EISSN: 15505138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004650-200204000-00010     Document Type: Article

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